Beji Caid Essebsi

Beji Caid el-Sebsi (29 November 1926-) was the President of Tunisia from 2014, succeeding Moncef Marzouki.

Biography
Beji Caid el-Sebsi was born in an agricultural commune in Sidi Bou Said, descended from Sardinian Mameluke corsair Ismail Caid Essebsi. In 1952 he became a lawyer in Tunis after studying in France, and he held various political offices from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was an advocate of democracy in Tunisia, and in 2011 he was made the interim Prime Minister after the Tunisian Revolution. On 24 December 2011 he left office, but on 22 December 2014 he was elected President of Tunisia as the leader of the secular and social democratic Nidaa Tounes party, succeeding Moncef Marzouki.